Anshel Pfeffer

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Bibi, one more time? Israel’s election launches · 20 May 2026 podcast

Alza may be the end of his very long and very strong alliance with those ultra Orthodox parties, though it's hard to see who they will link up instead of Netanyahu with if this is the end.

As far as Israelis are concerned, Gaza still means one thing, and that's October 7, 23, the surprise attack by Hamas, the massacre of over 1200 Israelis on that day, and everything that led up to it, the failures of intelligence, the policy that Netanyahu had of basically allowing Hamas to entrench themselves in Gaza, those are still things that grow.

greatly concern Israelis why it happened, how to prevent it from happening again.

Natanyawa so far refused to even set up a national commission of inquiry and that is something that all the opposition parties are demanding.

So I think that will almost certainly dominate a large part of the election campaign.

You're talking here now about two things.

You're talking here about what happened on October seventh and everything that led up.

Before October seventh, then you're talking about the conduct of the war, which is everything that's happened in Gaza over the past two and a half years.

And that's something that obviously the world is much more focused on.

The fact that over seventy thousand people, the majority of whom were civilians, had been killed in Gaza, the destruction of much of the area, the fact that the population there were brought to the brink of starvation.

And

That I don't think we'll be very much in this election because Israelis are still so fixated on what happened on October 7th.

And also because Israelis regard the war in Gaza.

And it doesn't matter whether these Israelis are pro-Netanyao or anti-Netanyao, overwhelmingly regard the war in Gaza as a war that Israel had to fight because of what happened, because of the Hamas attacks.

The debate on how that war was conducted and all the bad things that

That happened, the the destruction, the death in Gaza, I think is something which will play out in Israel for years to come and it needs both a d different government that is capable of starting this national reckoning.

And I think also for all of Israelis a processing of the trauma of what happened and that's if at all it's only starting now.

So the fact that Israel is still fighting or

There are just brief lulls, perhaps, in the two inconclusive wars, one in Leban against Hezbollah and one with Iran, where Israel was fighting together with America, they will also overshadow the election.

A majority of Israelis believe that it was justified to go to war against Hezbollah in Lebanon and against Iran over the nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

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